Nine in 10 Eligible Hospitals Achieve Meaningful Use in 2014

The EHR meaningful use achievement rate for nearly 5,000 eligible hospitals is 90 percent through December 2014, according to the latest numbers from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.

ONCs Dawn Heisey-Grove told a Feb. 10 joint meeting of the HIT Policy and Standards Committees that of all eligible hospitals 90 percent have attested to some stage of meaningful use, 5 percent are adopting, implementing or upgrading (AIU) paid, 1 percent are registered and 4 percent are not participating.